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Latin American Critical Epistemologies toward a Biocentric Turn in Communication for Social Change: Communication from a Good Living Perspective

Alejandro Barranquero Carretero,Chiara Sáez Baeza

Published 2017 in Latin American Research Review

ABSTRACT

This article reviews the historical and theoretical foundations of communication for development and, in particular, communication for social change, a recently coined concept that remains anchored to an anthropocentric and unsustainable perspective of development. Based on the review of literature, we would like to open a dialogue between the field and Latin American contemporary debates, with a special focus on a number of theoretical frameworks that share a radical critique of modernity and stand for a biocentric turn in social sciences: the so-called modernity/coloniality research program, critical ecology, and indigenous epistemologies. We propose approaching communication theories from the indigenous worldview of “good living” (buen vivir) and quote several inspiring participatory projects that apply the new epistemologies to the field. Resumen El articulo revisa los fundamentos historicos y teoricos de la comunicacion para el desarrollo y, en particular, del nuevo paradigma de la comunicacion para el cambio social, un concepto acunado recientemente que permanece anclado a una vision en exceso antropocentrica e insostenible del desarrollo. Basado en la revision de bibliografia de referencia, se invita a abrir un dialogo entre el campo y los debates latinoamericanos contemporaneos, en especial con un conjunto de perspectivas teoricas que comparten su critica radical a la modernidad e invitan a establecer un giro biocentrico en el ambito de las ciencias sociales: el programa de investigacion modernidad/colonialidad, la ecologia critica y las epistemologias indigenas. Finalmente se propone una aproximacion a la teoria comunicacional desde la cosmovision del buen vivir y se citan un conjunto de proyectos participativos inspiradores que ponen en practica las nuevas epistemologias sobre el terreno.

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  • Publication year

    2017

  • Venue

    Latin American Research Review

  • Publication date

    2017-09-22

  • Fields of study

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  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.25222/LARR.59
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